The Alamo Mission, commonly called the Alamo, is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, where American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett died.[1]
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The Alamo is featured in Roads to Nowhere, starting 2 months after people, where it silently awaits the assault, being the oldest building in the city and above the River Walk.
Oak trees start crushing the Alamo.
50 years after people, the Alamo facade still stares back untouched on its elevated perch on the city's street level, but an enemy is attacking the compound from within. Live oaks already dominated the Alamo's courtyard in the time of humans. Bruce Winders stated there are many oak trees, and they tend to grow very large with their limbs extending outward, and the weight of it causes it to reach down to the earth where they support themselves. Without people to redirect the massive limbs, the trees begin to demolish the Alamo's walls. Bruce Winders shows the limb that's been held up by an iron post to keep it off the ground, and without people to constantly cut the limbs back, a lot of the trees would continue to grow and would crush the wall. He continues that the oak trees drop acorns, which would bring wildlife, which in turn would bring seeds. Over 200 years after the Alamo fell to the invading Mexican army, an army of trees is trying to conquer it again, and the Alamo doesn't stand a chance.
Its fate is revealed 200 years after people when the Alamo is still standing but only barely. Just like the great stone temples of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, years of uncontrolled tree growth have the structure in a death grip. As the Alamo starts to fail, there's no one to remember the Alamo and, more importantly, no one to take care of it as it collapses into the ground.
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